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Larger vehicles could be coordinated to people going in the same area. Like a Van or some not yet invented thing larger than a van smaller than a bus. Having a computerized system would solve the problems of rush hour. People would obviously pay a lower subscription for the shared cars so everyone wins. With substantially fewer cars needed on the roads a 3 or 4 lane interstate can have 1 or 2 lanes reclaimed and turned into a high speed rail system to get people from large work hubs to large home hubs where van style cars can then takeover for the short trip. There are solutions for everything if people are willing to accept them.

My original reply was meant to address the faults of a car subscription service. /u/atraindeluxe is implying the subscription model would be a hard sell because you would still need the same amount of cars as we have presently since everyone needs a ride at the same time twice a day, to and from work. While the system I envision is fundamentally the same the robo drivers offer efficiency and automation on a scale we have yet to experience. Current city busses stop at every single stop whether someone is waiting or not and generally wait there a small length of time to allow for variances in traffic. They are also restricted to where they can travel due to their large size and poor turn raidus there wont be any busses coming down a cul-de-sac to pick you up at your door. You have to go to where the bus is going to be and depending on your city it may or may not be convenient/close enough to warrant use. The robo driver improves this system by having some sort of vehicle that can hold maybe 8 - 10 drivers comfortably with enough space to not be touching or crowding each other, maybe even completely private passenger containers. The vehicles size allows it to come right to your front door on any street anywhere and similar to a bus it will be there at a specified time because the entire roadway is a robofleet there's no random traffic slowdowns to account for. In this system we've taken 7-9 cars off the road. There will always be super wealthy people who still own their own personal robo car so we can safely say at least 4-5 less cars on the road for every robo-van/bus/whatever-future-peoplemover. Now you are still left with possibly thousands of people in a small geographic are all need their robocar at 8am obviously not everyone can get picked up at once in this system so thats where reclaiming some of the not needed highways comes in to install mag rails or whatever future mass transport is. The robo car can pick you up and dump you at the mass rail station and continue making small pickups for morning rush. All of that is going to be cheaper and faster than owning your own car and sitting in bumper to bumper traffic twice a day. Hopefully society will have evolved to having companies stagger employees to come in at different times along with working from home and more time off.